I believe that Books will never disappear

I BELIEVE THAT BOOKS WILL NEVER DISAPPEAR

Mother:
Jorge Luis Borgers mother was an extra – ordinary and kind person. He feels guilty for not having been a happy man in order to have given her a deserved happiness. He generally his experience and says that children take their mother for granted, one realises the fact when she dies. They feel they have taken her for granted as we do with the moon the sun and the seasons. He believes that she had no enemies and was very kind to him.

All that is ear becomes far/can humiliation and misfortune be transmuted?
Borges, while speaking about blindness, says that Blindness has become a way of life. All persons must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose like humiliations, misfortunes and our embarrassments given to us as raw material as clay so that we may shape our art. We must transmute them, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our life to produce eternal work.
As Goethe says, ‘All that is near becomes far’, it refers not only to sunset but also to life. In Borges case visible world fortunately replaced by other things. So his duty is to accept and enjoy things.

A Book goes beyond author’s intention.
A book goes beyond author’s intention. In every there is a need for something more, which is always mysterious. Borges exemplify, when we read an ancient book we feel as though we were reading all time that has passed from the day it was written to our present day.
A book can be full of errors, we can reject its author’s opinions, disagree with him or her but the book always retains something sacred, something mortal and something magical which brings happiness. Borges quotes Bernard Shaw, ‘Every book worth being re – read has been written by spirit’. Thus he feels that when we read a book, what matters is not the author’s intention but what sense a reader get out of it.

Poetry:
According to Borges poetry is something so intimate and essential that it cannot be defined without oversimplifying it. It would be like attempting to define colour yellow, love and the fall of leaves in the autumn. Borges believes poetry is the aesthetic act. It takes place when the poet writes it and reader reads it. When the poetic act takes place we become aware of it. Poetry is a magical, mysterious and unexplainable although not incomprehensible event. If one doesn’t feel the poetic event upon reading it, the poet has failed.

The art of poetry is finding the precise words.
Borges believes that precise words elicit the emotions. It is important in the art of poetry, to find precise word. To exemplify this, he quotes the line of Emily Dickinson, “This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies”. The phrase gentlemen and ladies gives magic and poetic quality, than ‘men and women’. He says that it is important to have metaphors in poetry to be effective. He had reduced all metaphors to five or six; time and river, life and dream, death and sleep, stars and eyes, flowers and women.

Books will not disappear:
Borges believes that books will never disappear. Though the people assert that modern developments in communications will replace book with more dynamic that takes less time than reading. According to Borges, Book is the astounding invention of man. All others are extensions of our bodies. The telephone, is the extension of our voice, the telescope and the microscope are extensions of our sight, the plough and the sword are the extension of our arms. Only the book is an extension of our imagination and memory. Books are the great memory of our past. So its function is irreplaceable. Thus if books disappear, then history and man would disappear.